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Back on Track

Nov15

Sometimes life just throws you a curve and you don’t get out of the way in time. It’s tough standing in the middle of a field not going left or right. Sometimes you just need to stand there until you figure it out.

It’s true that when you are still and in the moment, the right place and time seem to find you. Timing isn’t about being “there”. It’s about being “here”. After all, when you arrive, you are always “here”.

I observe the way things are changing in the food arena, and I don’t like what I see. Tonight, I drove to Sam’s Club to buy a Honeysuckle White boneless turkey breast . Until recently, Sam’s Club was the only place I could find this boneless turkey “roast”.

After a long and challenging few months where stress reigned and food seemed to take the pain away, I am able to make the commitment to get back on track. I didn’t find what I was looking for at Sam’s. No clean meat there anymore. Everything is fried, processed, and highly salted.

I used to be able to get Atlantic cod loins and salmon that didn’t taste like you were chewing on a wet rag. Now, it’s only pizza, greasy rolls stuffed with oily cheese, high fat dairy items, and of course plenty of chips and candy. Who the heck can live like that?

I’ve watched the quality of foods decline as they are shipped half way around the world. I see people who are huge, without energy, and relegated to motorized scooters just to get around their homes. I wonder what will happen when an extra fifty or a hundred pounds  renders  them completely isolated from the rest of the world.

What  will happen to our society when the garbage that  passes as nutrition with a big FDA stamp of approval has redesigned our bodies and stolen our ability to be productive human beings?

Will only the rich be able to dance, play tennis, go walking or hiking, take a swim on a hot day, fly to an exotic destination in a regular aircraft for a week of total relaxation? Will we live to see a time when a movie like Surrogates is a documentary?

He who controls the food supply rules the world. I hope it’s true that food brings us together, because we’re going to have to fight for this one.

Forget Fat! Get Healthy!

May20

I wasn’t sure if I would continue this blog or write another. I’m opting for the latter. One thing I’m absolutely sure about is that I will keep at the gym thing and make it work for me. I like exercising out of the house, even if it is inside a gym.

Being healthy is what I care about now. You can only say so much about fat and food addictions and then it’s time to take action. This is my time to take action.

What Scripps Research proved in March I have known since the first time I had a blackout from hypoglycemia brought on by eating too much candy. Now it’s time to live a new life.

You can’t fix an addiction, even if it is only a food addiction. You have to choose a new life and live it to the best of your ability.

I will check in from time to time until the new blog is ready. I’m ready to lose the weight so it’s time I put all the knowledge and information aside and do what I know to do.

Forget about fat and get healthy. Have a kickass healthy life. Healthy is better than anything. It makes everything else possible.

If you have a story you would like to share, step up and comment so you can inspire others as they have (hopefully) inspired you.

Later……………….

Scripps Research Study Says Junk Food as Addictive as Cocaine and Heroin

Apr11

According to a report published the end of March by The  Scripps Research Institute in Florida,  junk food contains the same molecular mechanisms that cause drug addiction.

The three-year study confirmed for the first time that junk food contains addictive properties, something that food addicts and compulsive overeaters have been saying for decades. And now we have our proof.

With all the junk food junkies out there and obesity numbers growing daily, it’s almost comforting to know that there is a legitimate reason for compulsive overeating and food addictions.

The research, which was performed on rats, showed a direct link between obesity and a progressively deteriorating chemical balance in the reward center of the brain.

Real answers, at last. Click here to read the entire press release.

Food Addiction and Exercise

Apr8

Today I joined a gym. I’m tired of being overweight so I signed up for a 16-week program at a gym that is only a couple of miles from my home. Then I went home and binged, but only slightly.

My life has been particularly stressful the last two years and the binge eating isn’t helping anymore. At first there is some feeling of relief, and that may last for some people, but it isn’t working for me anymore.

Being overweight makes part of you fade away. Even though you take up more space, you feel invisible. It’s a very emotional experience that gets more stressful as you gain more weight.

Some people can go on an emotional eating binge now and then, put on a few pounds and then take them off. But for a person with a food addiction, those emotional upsets always seem out of proportion as do the binges that follow.

I walked on my treadmill almost every day for the past three or four years. Recently I was injured and missed almost six months, then it was the flu for two weeks, and now the tread has started slipping.

There are diets, exercises, weight loss programs, and pills that promise a flat tummy or toned backside in some short period of time. Then you see the women in bikinis, sleeveless dresses, all  smiles.

If they can do it, why can’t you, you ask yourself. And so you give it a half-hearted try and lose a few pounds.

Then something unpleasant happens and the food addict will likely give in to a binge because that’s what we do when the stress of imagining oneself in good shape, happy, enjoying ourselves in a social situation is too intimidating, too overwhelming.

So let’s see how the gym experience goes. Perhaps the exercise will prove a good substitute for overeating in times of stress.

We shall see.